![]() Jaqueline Rogers has been a professional children's book illustrator for more than twenty years and has worked on nearly one hundred children's books. Her characters, including Beezus and Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, have delighted children for generations. Henshaw won the Newbery Medal, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ![]() As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. HarperCollins, Juvenile Fiction - 160 pages. Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() More on her work is available at alicedreger. Dreger is widely known for her investigative scholarship and for live-tweeting her son's high school sex ed class, and also for having resigned in August 2015 from Northwestern University's medical school following censorship of her work by her dean, Eric Neilson. Her TED talk, "Is Anatomy Destiny?" has been viewed almost one million times, and her work has been published in many venues, including The New York Times, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, The Atlantic, New Statesman, WIRED, Pacific Standard, the Guardian, and the Chicago Tribune. Mit o szkole jako miejscu wszechstronnego rozwoju ucznia (The Myth of the School as a Place. She is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship. ![]() Her latest book GALILEO'S MIDDLE FINGER (Penguin Press, 2015), has been named a New York Times Book Review editors' choice, and has also been reviewed in The New Yorker, Salon, Nature, and elsewhere. ![]() Alice Dreger is an American history of medicine and science, a mainstream writer, and an (im)patient advocate. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments The space between worlds summary![]() ![]() Her heart is torn between two very different lives, but grounded in her love of her family and friends. Yet, she has also found community and a sense of home in the bustling cities along the East Coast of America. In her writing, Marilyn creates vivid pictures of her years living in Pakistan and Egypt, conveying nostalgia for a time and place that can never be repeated. Now, she has come full circle she and her husband are based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later, she raised her own family in Pakistan and Egypt. Within 3 months her family embarked on their journey back across the sea to Karachi, Pakistan, where she would grow up. She was born in Massachusetts while her parents were visiting their hometown. ![]() Marilyn’s story is special, though perhaps not entirely unique in the community of expats and Third Culture Kids. Each memory is lovingly crafted onto the page and contextualized within the global perspective she has now, as an adult. Conversational in tone and rich in descriptive insights, Marilyn’s short works unfold an intimate look at moments in her life. Gardner presents a compelling collection of essays. ![]() |